Juan Zapata Olivella (1922Ð2008) and Edelma Zapata PŽrez (1954Ð2010) celebrated Afro-Colombian history and culture in many ways: not least through their poetry, which is by turns political and intensely personal, at times angry, often mournful, yet resolutely hopeful.
The translator, Dr Patricia Rodr’guez-Mart’nez-Jones, is Senior Lecturer and Director of Interpreting Studies in the Department of Languages, Translation & Interpreting at Swansea University (Wales, UK).